Patient: I have this (pain, cough, ache, whatever).
Doctor: Have you had it before?
Patient: Yes.
Doctor: Well, you have it again.Medicine as practiced today, according to my observations.
Patient: I'm having water retention.
Doctor: No problem. Here's a pill for that.And a couple months later.
Patient: I'm having a problem with incontinence.
Doctor: Pshaw. Not a problem. Here's a pill for that.Not to mention the pills for treatment of the side-effects from the previous pills.
And so on.
Say what?
4 comments:
It certainly seems to work that way.
Chuck, I do try to share my observations which reflect truth. As I observe it.
They have moved on from pills and added diagnostic testing too. A surgeon told me recently "I don't make money until you go for tests." I refused...and I'm still alive. Modern medicine is led by profits.
Lin, indeed. Which is why I am leaving the (huge) *group* *cartel* *HCP* whatever it is called. I suppose it is possible that I will find it simply a jump from the frying pan into the fire. Oh, well.
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